Internet "SLOOOOOW DOWN"

I have a new Imac with 10.5.5 (Lepord) and web pages take forever to load. The Mac is on a domain but NOT "joined" to the domain. The Mac gets it ip from a DCHP server that is also a DNS server. The correct order of DNS servers, from internet to external show up fine on the Mac, even ntlookup on the Mac is responsive, takes about 1-2 seconds on the results of ntlookup on yahoo. However webpages take forever to load using Safari and Firefix. Once I connect to Speakeasy the download test results are normal and upload is normal too, but pages themselves take forever to load. The home page has taken upto 45 seconds to load. Simple sites like nba.com take 40 or so seconds to load.
What is odd is, when I run VMFusion with Windows XP pro, on the same Imac IE has no problem at all. Webpages load just fine, no slow down.
The primary connection is wireless, using G speed, WPA. However I have tried adjustments, tried N speed, wired lan, by passing switch, using another switch, etc..same problem. MAC OS internet slow down, XP using VM normal.
Any suggestions?

When I was in the market for a cordless phone, I read up about 802.11g and decided to avoid getting any 2.4 GHz phones. (At the time I didn't own a wireless router.) This should be fine for most cases, but since I live in a condominium,
there's no guarantee our neighbor would take the same precautions.
I've noticed signal droppage when the microwave is running as well. If the connection needs to be pretty reliable, I would recommend just using Ethernet.

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